Standard Definition Video Recording FormatsFirst of all, it should be noted that, without exception, all modern digital video cameras use certain compression algorithms and compression of the original video, and the “recording format” just…

Optimal Godox flashes for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic Lumix, Olympus, FujiChoosing the optimal system flash for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Lumix, Olympus, Fuji cameras. Everyone who likes to take pictures faced with the situation that in the dark and in dark…

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The current line of SLR cameras Nikon covers the entire spectrum of interests of customers. It has cameras with full-frame matrices (FX, frame size about 36 × 24 mm) and “cropped” – APS-C, that is, reduced diagonally by 1.5 times compared to full-frame. The frame size is approximately 24 × 16 mm. In Nikon, they are called DX.

With the development of digital photographic equipment, two main trends are steadily observed – an abrupt increase in the resolution of CCDs and a gradual decrease in prices in each of the categories of cameras. However, there are a number of market niches in which the price remains the same, but at the same time there is a constant qualitative improvement in cameras. By “quality improvement” we should understand not only the increase in sensor resolution, but also the improvement of lenses, ergonomics, a set of service functions – in short, all that allows you to get good pictures without extra effort on the part of the user. In one of these market niches can be attributed cameras, the cost of which ranges from 200 to 300 $. In the second half of the nineties of the last century, for the amount mentioned, it was possible to purchase a product of a little-known brand from Southeast Asia, equipped with a plastic similarity to the lens and a CMOS sensor with a resolution of less than a megapixel, moreover, the manufacturer often considered the flash and LCD display to be an excess and did not equip their products. Continue reading →

The history of Polaroid began in 1922 at the Mouven Summer Camp for Boys, which was located on a lake in Connecticut. Barney Griden worked as a mentor in the camp, he was passionate about physics and later patented eight inventions for scuba diving.

Barney demonstrated scientific experiments to teenagers, woke them in the middle of the night to show a thunderstorm and explain its nature. Seen experiments so influenced his students that in the future many of them took up science.

The most famous among those students was Edwin Land, he patented 535 inventions – only Thomas Edison received more patents. Land’s inventions include a polarizer, an X-ray film, 3D films, night vision devices for the army, and much more. The scientist led the development of the U2 spy plane when he was an adviser to U.S. President Dwight Continue reading →

Manufacturers will have to change their mindsDespite the fierce price war with camera phones, well-known companies did not want to lower the price of digital cameras below $ 100 for a long time. Instead of lowering…

The 10 best camcorder manufacturers of 2019The camcorder is indispensable for those who want to record all the important moments of life in high quality. And hardly anyone would want to skip the first steps of…

Manufacturers will have to change their mindsDespite the fierce price war with camera phones, well-known companies did not want to lower the price of digital cameras below $ 100 for a long time. Instead of lowering…